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Barney Lane, a carpenter by trade, lived in the “District East of Neuse River” in Johnston County. (His first name also appears as “Barna” and “Barnaba.”) On May 31, 1861, he was appointed captain of the “Lone Star Boys,” a company recruited in the…

Leander Armsur Coe, by occupation a “house carpenter,” was born in Surry County but in 1860 resided with his wife and two small children in the Murphy District of Cherokee County. He was conscripted in Jackson County on April 5, 1863, in Company B…

Company F (the “Hibriten Guards”), 26th Regiment N.C. Troops achieved a terrible fame at the Battle of Gettysburg. During the fight against the Iron Brigade on McPherson’s Ridge on July 1, every member of the company present was shot down:…

Francis Marion Long (born ca. 1839) lived in the Cane Creek District of Rutherford County and enlisted at Rutherfordton on March 24, 1862, in a company known as the “Rutherford Farmers.” The “Farmers” were soon on their way to Camp Mangum, near…

Louis Bryson Flack (born 1838) resided with his parents and three siblings in the Cathey’s Creek District of Rutherford County. His father was a blacksmith, but Flack’s occupation is unknown.

He enlisted on May 12, 1862, in a local company known…

Unidentified North Carolina soldier holding a bouquet.

A chair finial is visible behind the left shoulder of this unidentified image, indicating that the ambrotype was made in the studio of the photographer Esley Hunt of Raleigh. For additional…

Unidentified North Carolina soldier, shown in the 1861 regulation jacket. Purchased from a Charlotte, NC, estate in the 1980s.

Alfred F. Goodman
1838 – 1916
Company C, 4th North Carolina State Troops

A native of Iredell County, twenty-three year old Alfred F. Goodman enlisted at Statesville in Company C, 4th North Carolina State Troops on June 7, 1861. Goodman was…

Robert Jones of Granville County was conscripted into service and enlisted at Oxford on July 8, 1862, in Company I (the “Granville Stars”), 23rd Regiment N.C. Troops. On the following September 6 he entered a hospital at Danville, Virginia, suffering…

Abner Burgess Hayes (born October 21, 1839) farmed with his parents and eight siblings in the Summers District, Caldwell County. The family was prosperous and owned one slave.

Abner enlisted at Lenoir on July 15, 1861, in the “Hibriten Guards,”…